Brent Oteyand and Geoff Grimstad were influenced by ’80s commercial groupings like Ministry and Thin Puppy, but also by thrash-metal rings such as for example Sepultura and Napalm Loss of life. Oteyand and Grimstad performed jointly in Colorado, and afterwards produced the Christian commercial band Concern with Beliefs in 1993 while likely to university in California. The duo provides released three pieces of demos, Dredge, Stress (1994) and Blind (1995), and appearance on R.E.X.’s Electro-Shock Therapy compilation.